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The people from heaven (1943)

The people from heaven (1943)

African American Fiction

John B. Sanford

Year: 1943
Authors: John B. Sanford
Print type: BOOK

Description:

An extraordinary novel told partly in verse, The People from Heaven takes place in 1943, the year it was originally published, in Warrensburg, New York, where Eli Bishop, a white shopkeeper, initiates a reign of terror on the populace following his rape of America Smith, a black woman.